Links - 8/20/2020
For those readers interested in the history of businesses and industry—and plenty of other interesting stories—my friend Gene Hoots has just published a book worth checking out: Going Down Tobacco Road: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Empire: The Gold Leaf and North Carolina
There are few, if any, other people that are as qualified to tell this story as Gene, who is also quoted in the last few paragraphs of the book Barbarians at the Gate. He wrote Going Down Tobacco Road to be accessible to all readers, but for those financial analysts out there that want to go deeper into the numbers, you can also purchase the supplemental set of charts and tables on the book’s website, HERE. And there is also a review and interview about the book, HERE.
California countdown begins as Lyft threatens to shut down tonight at 11:59 p.m. (LINK)
Most and Least Affordable Places to Buy a Home (LINK)
Village Global's Venture Stories Podcast: Building A New Model For Higher Education with Stephen Kosslyn (LINK)
All-American Podcast: Season 1 — Tiger Woods (Introduction, Episode 1: The Messiah)
Revisionist History Podcast: A Memorial for the Living (LINK)
The Big Story: How the Virus Won — Ed Yong (video) (LINK)
“The duty of a man is to be useful to his fellow-men; if possible, to be useful to many of them; failing this, to be useful to a few; failing this, to be useful to his neighbours, and, failing them, to himself: for when he helps others, he advances the general interests of mankind. Just as he who makes himself a worse man does harm not only to himself but to all those to whom he might have done good if he had made himself a better one, so he who deserves well of himself does good to others by the very fact that he is preparing what will be of service to them.” —Seneca ("On Leisure")